in times flashes in the skies burning debris falling to the ground breaks up over russia's urals and showers down on the return. of something five hundred people seek medical attention after the meteor widespread panic and destruction over the russian region with around twenty thousand emergence of personnel who is on high alert. also this hour concerns of a hollywood future resurface in the us as the government's assaults portable surveillance sees millions spent on biometrics research. financial movers and shakers flocked to the major gathering in moscow to chew over the stage world economy i made currency manipulation as and the no arranging eurozone crisis. and as a bunch of constant britain strike against police with thousands of layoffs in the past year he takes

a look at whether the us officers means more crime. here so russia and around the world this is aussie with me thanks for joining us and we'll start with our brain key news story this hour and it's not been quite to your average a morning here in russia. so people in the region have seen burning troops raining down from the sky. exploded above the cooling and me shia shower and. he's here with us with more irina very nice to see you again i mean he has so what's actually happened because we've heard a lot of eyewitness accounts and some people say that they've seen they've seen

white huge white fireball some say about the mushroom cloud and obviously all of them a huge buying as well what's happened well what happened is that we had a meeting that we had an asteroid entering the earth's atmosphere and then breaking apart into several pieces for five to be exact and according to the latest information in there you can see it on your screen right there according to some information it hasn't been confirmed as of yet by the shows but there are reports that they have actually located one of the pieces somewhere in the genetic region and by those reports it says that the area has been cordoned off by the police and minister the emergency personnel and they're all exploring the creator of all of whatever it is they found there. the pictures are beautiful we have to keep in mind that it's getting a little bit serious now you saw the pictures you heard the crash and the thunder and we're talking about five hundred people now who have actually turned to

hospitals to medics for some sort of injuries a lot of those injuries are said to be coming from the glass flying obviously you can see what you're seeing in the screens right now is actually a plant which was which now has a gaping hole in it because of the story but yes so we're talking about five hundred five hundred people who have asked for medical treatment nine of them are in critical in serious condition so this actually is beautiful in some respects but a very very rather damaging. i guess event. that has happened in june evans also heard about phone disruptions as well so what about now was it maybe that was the it looks like the phones are working or more or less obviously because when the whole thing happened the initial impact when the initial impact happened it was around nine o'clock in the morning and people were on their way to school who were on their way to work and obviously when something like this happens when you see you see something flying through the sky then you

hear a tremendous crash boom and then everything just essentially starts falling around you you would start calling your loved ones and the cell instead of a couple or really went down for a while there but it seems to be working quite nicely we do know of course that speaking about damage. this what you're seeing right now is actually a school and it had windows blown out from what looks like to be a gym but not just the gym but everything on the first on the ground floor again and we're talking about the damages which were inflicted and in fact children were were told to go home and schools are closed for the day and that you have been scrooge and. but you have to remember that she lived and actually at one point was the problem of russia's nuclear research and experiment and it was a closed region for a while because there are so many nuclear facilities there and one of them actually one of the biggest in the country this. a nuclear storage facility if something

were to happen to it if there was an asteroid piece of from an asteroid fragment from an asteroid that ended up landing in it we could be talking about a nuclear disaster thankfully it seems like that was averted the mystery registries has measured the radiation levels in the region it seems but they're normal and actually what about some initial speculations we come to rule them out yes well of course i mean people see something happening people see something flying through the sky then there is a crash and a flash. and of course initially people were saying that this is to go to military . it's colliding then somebody said you know they and i mean guess there were theories that the aliens are upon us. and somebody said that the plane exploded in midair but then most people started. started getting information that this was that looks more like an asteroid breaking into pieces and yes basically we can. in fact what did people think and very likely let's have a listen to what they were thinking. but tell us

a little. bit first so she would write this is. a load exclusion that's not. true i was told that a plane crashed right. then and wall has been partially dislodged and metal structures inside were bent by the blast it was very scary. well yes we also know of at least twenty thousand emergency ministries personnel has been put on high alert just in case anything else happened and this is interesting one of the one of the deputy ministers one of the deputy prime ministers of russia dmitry rogozin actually this morning in reaction to this said that perhaps it's time that the countries started coming together and thinking about a way to protect the planet from something like this from happening in the future i mean we hear about asteroids coming and going all the time or coming really close to approaching but nobody ever does anything about it everybody keeps watching the

movie. you know the movie i'm talking about. yes that's the one but nobody nobody ever does anything and mr gordon said that when he first raised that question and nato when he was russia's. nato people didn't react to it they said there's nothing to talk about but perhaps now it's time to be given a thought how selfless of them yeah indeed so i'm not sure all of us are waiting for another sort of extraterrestrial from space and i'm talking about that's all this is a roid twenty. it's about. time silly so i also worry but a lot of people are saying that perhaps this is something that's going to you know kind of a preview into what i did what's happening or maybe this is as far as we're going to get busy with this is the closest one of the story asteroids and so they will be no risk of collision if you believe them so well the scientists don't. view once that was. just keep hoping that this is as close as we're going to get to

a possible disasters ok you know packing your bags and going to the moon yes no not yet i'm not quite ready for it i'm quite fond of this planet although i have to say something about the climate. profiteering thank you very much for that so the picture is pretty clear that nothing is clear for the moment so here's a story devoted to me that is let's just keep an eye on it definitely thank you very much. so most space rocks approaching a burned out safely in the planet's atmosphere is were not however one getting all the way through to the surface isn't such an uncommon unburned and some scientists estimate hundreds of them actually reach the ground every year however because of the internes burning in the atmosphere most end up too small to cause any damage or produce a display like the one above the urals today by doing a fragment of the freshly fallen meteorite takes employee deal of luck in c. during the ninety seven percent of space rocks found on earth have fallen long ago and are being injured by

a falling mid-air right isn't even rare event with only one universally accepted case in modern history for kilogram rockets truck through the roof of an alabama home in one thousand nine hundred fifty four interrupting the owner's afternoon up when it hit her on the arm and leg. and of course being the biggest country on the planet it's no surprise that russia gets his fair share of directing hates and let's now have a look at the most well known so far so the largest of the last century was the so-called tunis. for norman and in siberia it's on an asteroid afford to be a comet exploded in siberia leveling around two thousand square kilometers of forest another political happened less than two decades after the event and that's when i meet her right question southern russia and the biggest piece found a way to almost three hundred kilograms in one thousand nine hundred forty seven an estimated seventy tons of extra terrestrial material reach the earth so the overall

size of the meteorite or that's to made it at approximately one hundred tons and just over a decade ago side beer was hit again by another asteroid explosion not a major one with its power only reaching approximately two hundred tons of t.n.t. . we're going on now the world economic woes starved by tit for tat currency battles and europe's painful crisis will come to light at a meeting of the g twenty finance your house and the leaders of central banks here in moscow for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for broader g. twenty summit this year and more that let's hear from r.t. listen up. from cosmic sparks caused by media showers to economic sparks caused by the prospect of a currency war now this has been raised by japan essentially lowering the value of the yen and this has opened a massive rift between rich countries who are heavily in debt and growing faster growing countries developing countries that are heavily dependent on exports who

are quite worried about a wave of competitive devaluations now what does all this financial mumbo jumbo mean basically in tough economic times it could be pretty tempting for a country to lower the value of its currency for example taking this twenty dollar bill and making it worth a little bit less now why would someone want to do that because when your currency is devalued that makes your export goods cheaper on the market and that sort of creates a short term goosen economic growth now the fear with that is once you start going down that path as japan did europe can say well hey i'm going to lower the value of my currency america could follow suit and so on and so forth and that's the kind of clash that essentially leads to what we know as an economic currency war at the last time that happened was in the one nine hundred thirty s. and as we all remember that had some pretty devastating consequences one of the hot topics of debate is likely to be voting rights of the international monetary fund where countries like russia and china have less of a say despite the fact that they have trillions of dollars in reserves and so they

are going to be pushing this is an ongoing issue for a revision in the way the i.m.f. is structured to the developing economies have more of a greater say now another major issues of course debts and deficits with the finance minister is likely to try to come up with some sort of a new pact to reduce the borrowing a lot of the major financial issues of course as russia becomes the first big emerging economy to assume the annual presidency of the g twenty summit. a big surprise to me on the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled khadafi preparations in place setting up roadblocks cost the country and in nato forces gathering in the capital as the number of those protesting against the new government increases that's right. the u.s. department of defense has allocated three million dollars for the development of a groundbreaking smartphone phrase recognition technology though it's intended to

be used mainly by the military its potential use in law enforcement have care and the civil i.d. program spock's new privacy concerns. has more now on america's formless so. the information age was an era nearly everybody in braced by today's surveillance age experts say is a reality almost no one can escape we are five years away in new york from zero privacy from every new yorker being tracked and catalogued and watched and that information being saved for pretty much an indeterminate period of private investigator steve rambaldi believes america is being landscaped into an eis wide open society through the advancing market of biometrics technology that uses physiological and behavioral recognition to identify people. a system touted as a national security necessity is being used to build

a database where the biometric identity of millions of americans will be gathered and stored when you look at crying when you look at terrorism what we're really focusing on is the individual and so if you are interested in reducing crime or reducing terrorism you do have to focus on the individual and. a way. of connecting the person with a measurement unwanted visitors fees recognition and iris. scanning are the current tools of the trade however scientists are reportedly developing new technology aimed at identifying anyone from much greater distances if researchers are successful the defense department may eventually be able to detect individuals by your shape heartbeat walking patterns and possibly even older long range fingerprint and iris scanning are reportedly also being explored for the u.s. toolbox of tracking are there reasons to have such security devices sure. do i

think it's american do i think it's appropriate that somebody can press a button and determine everywhere i've been everything i've done everyone i've been with know it's role. and i think that we're entitled to privacy author and journalist a.j. jacobs recently spent three months documenting every second of his life with a small camera worn like a bluetooth it's remarkable it holds ten hours of video esquire magazine editor at large subscribed to self surveillance for an article about life logging yet he believes the market of high tech cameras and consumer biometric applications will soon make little brother and equally big concern and i think that we are. we're not going to have a private moment in the future and i always tell people listen if you want to have an extramarital affair you better have it right now because you're going to be able

to have it in five years because everything will be tracked your husband or wife will be able to know exactly where you are at all times as companies like apple moved her words fingerprint readers and facial recognition insiders say that consumer electronics will generate an entirely new source of revenue for the biometric industry and industry estimated to bank more than nine billion dollars globally this year however the top cash cow is expected to remain government spending on security of it in the past five years the department of defense has shelled out an estimated three billion dollars on biometric programs. hard to believe that just ten years ago the concept of facial recognition biometrics surveillance and domestic drones was limited to science fiction movies like minority report marina port i.r.t. . a walk with more news on her shoulder thanks for staying with us he.

didn't use it she did laboratory to mccurry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

i'm. this is r.c. welcome back british police have been given a severe cropping with the number of officers on duty hitting a record low as the country reduces expenses and made its continuing financial struggles but is it having any effect on the u.k. security sapphires tried to figure out by asking both pro and anti motion legislators. well the home secretary's announced plans to set up a national database where police officers will have to declare second jobs this is aimed at raising professional standards earth is also part of why the reforms that

are seeing the number of police officers drop to the lowest levels for eleven years is the impact of a twenty percent cut and whitehall funding to police budgets takes effect which is think more about these reforms i'm joined by conservative m.p. and britain and labor m.p. jim fitzpatrick thank you very much to both of you for joining us jim i'm going to start with a lot of the police officers that we were speaking with we've got is a bit of these reforms but at the same time they're seeing the number of police. and police morales. i mean it's quite confusing time i think for police officers as to what's being expected. i understand that there may be slight consolation but given the battering the reputation of the police is hired over recent months the government had to take steps to shore up the reputation. of. the police service. in my part of east london we've seen over one hundred fifty

uniform stuff go in the past two years productions in crime which we've seen year on year for six years reverse and for the past two years have been an increase in crime last year of nine percent so as certain parts of the country are being imposed are affecting the safety of people on the streets what do you say to. the lowest level of police officers now for eleven years. so they not know the police are having to take their share of the of the spending reductions along with the rest of the public sector to get the deficit under control and what we're actually seeing is it's not about numbers it's what you do with the police or innovative ways of maintaining a police presence on the street and jim a home for to have a increase in crime his constituency but the fact of the across the country on average last year crime fell by. and he fell in my force in leicestershire by eight percent as well so we are seeing a overall reduction in crime across the country at the same time for cutting police numbers but they're doing innovative things like sharing back office services with

other forces to save money and keep those police out on the streets where people want to be sort of in offices filling in paperwork and all that with red tape what do you think of that that being in is because. the coalition i've been and where they're cutting public services across the piece we're being told that there will be no night patrols on the river as a result of these cuts this is a security issue of terrorism issue as well as an issue of safety on the streets so we have different experiences in terms of our constituencies and everybody wants to support the police and we have a different economic strategy to deal with the deficit and the financial measures that need to be in to just essence what we want to do is support the place we both want to see. to do that kind of speak about integrity it's not just the police integrity it's the public perception of the police integrity and the reforms will help to improve the public perception of. wright thank you both very much for joining us you can join in our debate online dot com we've also been on twitter

a lot of the public have been getting involved in this debate as well as members of the police. joining the debate about the latest. westminster have been active in other areas too bringing free mental health treatment for m.p.'s and twenty five thousand pounds have been put aside for the program alive or go into details on why the politicians and parliament are being offered the treatment free of charge. also online by football funds on their way to a champions league match and died after their plane crashes and donetsk airport a new point find out why it came down at. the bros and head of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the khadafi regime foreigners are scrambling to get a flight out while government forces and allied militias tighten security around the country and there are fears of violent unrest in a growing calls for protests against the current government and there have been

reports of nato troops arriving in the competent tripoli but the west cares little for supporting democracy says former m i five agent. people have invested a lot of hope in the arab spring i think now they're beginning to realize the harsh reality that a lot of it was backed by the west and the west wants us to strip their countries of these mineral wealth i mean we're seeing the spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and this is all part of a bigger sort of power play or link between us wanting to secure the mineral resources were african generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy in arab spring you know i think it's very naive to think that that's what the west is trying to help these countries to achieve they've seen an absolute mess left behind by the nato invasion of libya which is what happened two years ago let's not mince words and that was problematic on so many levels not just the international legal level where suddenly aggressive war could be justified as humanitarian intervention even though it destabilized an entire country and results

in many more deaths than could be prevented. but we're also looking at a situation now where the country has lost its stability where there are reports coming out from independent journalists about militias still holding great swathes of the country and their power where we have competing fairly fundamentalist politicians police groups as well fighting over their territory without any of the promised ability wealth and democratic values that were suggested when the nato went in so it's become such a mess and so many levels. and while libya faces problems that threaten its survival germany to face a serious issues of its own violent clashes have taken place between protesters and police as hundreds of new nurses marched in the city of dresden the rally was held to mung the sixty eighth anniversary of the allied bombing of the industrial center in world war two a day that has become a focal point for the extreme right in germany thousands of anti fascist protesters

formed a human chain around the city to try to block the demonstration. also in the u.s. senate republicans have voted against naming chuck hagel as secretary of defense delaying his confirmation fifty eight senators voted of favor haig will take in the post to shuttle the sixty required to go to the next stage of the naming process republicans say the delay will allow them to find out more about the candor that hagel has come in for criticism for saying the drew should all be had to march first and washington. authorities in serbia say they have foiled a plot to assassinate a national leader by bringing down a government plane few details of the plan have been released or who the intended target was the country's national media has been questioning the prime minister's association with alleged drug smuggler so if it means to meeting the man known by

the name of banana but denies any wrongdoing. take a minute to stay with us hospice report on the great sons of european democracy. helicopters flying through the air day and night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as

a military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four all made it a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training the kill anyways knock off the terror training but that's just my opinion.